An Elephant in the Lagoon is the image of the official poster for the Biennale Cinema 2024 by Lorenzo Mattotti

Lorenzo Mattotti for La Biennale di Venezia - Foto ASAC

The official poster depicts an Elephant in the Lagoon and for the sixth year it brings the signature of the Italian illustrator and artist Lorenzo Mattotti.

Lorenzo Mattotti writes: “What is an elephant doing in the Lagoon? It is certainly an unu-sual, unexpected image, but it takes us back in memory to when, many years ago, an ele-phant arrived in Venice and wandered around the narrow Venetian streets during a fa-mous Biennale Carnival in 1981...
This Elephant now crosses the Lagoon and travels the paths of Fantasy, Mystery and Mag-ic that are discovered in Cinema. He himself is a Memory and also the History of Cinema: a party, a parade, a show! And this specially-coloured Elephant also reminds us of the Exotic, the Faraway, the East, a look towards other civilisations, other cultures... At the Mostra other worlds, other languages, other fantasies have always met, and have been arriving in the Lagoon for 92 years.

An Elephant that goes towards the East, but which has the ability to welcome everyone."

The 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia will be held from August 28  to September 7, 2024.

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